Labor force—by occupation: agriculture 81%, services 16%,
industry 3%
Unemployment rate: NA%; substantial underemployment (1996)
Budget:
revenues: $536 million
expenditures: $818 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY96/97 est.)
Industries: tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar,
and oilseed mills; cigarette; cement and brick production
Industrial production growth rate: 14.7% (FY94/95 est.)
Electricity—production: 1.032 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 3.1% hydro: 96.9% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 1.013 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 89 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 70 million kWh (1996)